Ted Cruz won a major victory in Monday’s Iowa caucuses. Polls showed him running behind Donald Trump, who attacked Cruz furiously, calling him a nasty person, a stooge of Goldman Sachs, and, heaven forbid, a Canadian. But Cruz persevered and beat Trump 28 to 24 percent, with Marco Rubio a close third at 23 percent. Cruz’s path to the Republican nomination depended on him winning the Iowa caucuses. Well, he won them.
If things break right here — a big if — billionaire businessman Donald Trump is well-positioned to become the first Republican presidential candidate in almost a half-century to string together wins in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary — a feat that would give him momentum in the race and likely lead to an all-hands-on-deck moment for the establishment wing of the party.
The State Department said Friday it is withholding 22 emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email account for containing ‘top secret’ material, and another 18 messages she exchanged with President Obama, saying those are privileged communications.
Tensions between Republican presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio erupted over immigration and more Thursday night during the Fox News/Google debate, as the campaigns tried to put aside their battles with front-runner Donald Trump — “the elephant not in the room” who chose to boycott — and focus on the issues, and their Democratic rivals.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering a presidential run as an independent candidate, according to a new report.
Emails from Hillary Clinton’s home server contained information classified at levels higher than previously known, including a level meant to protect some of the most sensitive U.S. intelligence, according to a document obtained by NBC News.
The Republican National Committee has formally severed ties with NBC News for the upcoming presidential debate.
The latest political polls show Martin O’Malley still hanging on in the Democratic presidential race and Donald Trump increasing his GOP lead nationally.
Hillary Clinton’s personal email server contained sensitive information disclosing internal workings of the U.S. intelligence community, redactions to a previously unreported email released last month indicate.
Four years ago, 57 percent of Iowa Republican caucus-goers identified themselves as evangelical Christians. Rick Santorum won evangelicals (with 32 percent of their vote), but the second-place finisher was … Ron Paul, with 18 percent, according to entrance polls from 2012. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, neither evangelical rock stars, each took home 14 percent.
Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to ‘unsign’ President Barack Obama’s plans to tighten gun control via executive action, telling a packed rally in Biloxi, Mississippi, that he would protect the right to bear arms.
The office of House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday that next week’s scheduled vote to repeal key parts of Obamacare will be the best chance Republicans have had for years to repeal the law that they’ve fought since it President Obama signed it in 2010.
Donald Trump leads the GOP presidential field in polls of Republican voters nationally and in most early-voting states, but some polls may actually be understating his support, according to a new study.
If this campaign season has proved anything, it’s that Donald Trump always comes out on top even when he doesn’t.
It’s possible that Donald Trump and Ben Carson simply don’t understand what would trigger a brokered convention to nominate the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential candidate.
Donald Trump on Tuesday vehemently defended his call for a “total and complete ban” on Muslims entering the United States, telling CNN that there is “no choice but to do exactly what I said until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”
Donald Trump has opened a 20-point lead on the Republican presidential field, according to a new CNN/ORC survey.
Donald Trump remains the clear Republican front-runner across the nation, and is defying the predictions of pundits again by gaining steam less than two months before the Iowa caucuses, according to a new poll.
Hillary Clinton met with Susan Rice just before the United Nations ambassador appeared on political talk shows and blamed the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi on a spontaneous demonstration, a move that ultimately dashed her hopes for higher office.
Republicans want a candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton. A new Fox News poll finds Marco Rubio performs best against the presumptive Democratic nominee.